Copayments turn older women off to mammography

March 4, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. Copayments turn older women off to mammography Marjorie Preston -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copayments may make financial sense for insurers, but mammographers are appalled that some older women are avoiding routine screening because their Medicare managed-care plans force them to pony up for a portion of the imagingprocedure. Dr. Amal Trivedi and colleagues at Brown University uncovered the pattern as they reviewed coverage for 174 Medicare managed-care plans and screening mammography utilization for those plans’ beneficiaries, more than 550,000 women aged 65 to 69. The study was published in the Jan. 24 New England Journal of Medicine (2008:358[4]:375-383).

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